The general purpose processor has long been the focus of intense optimization efforts that have resulted in an impressive doubling of performance every 18 months. However, recent ...
Christopher T. Weaver, Rajeev Krishna, Lisa Wu, To...
Device scaling in new and future technologies brings along severe increase in the soft error rate of circuits, for combinational and sequential logic. Although potential solutions...
Power consumption has been the primary issue in processor design, with various power reduction strategies being adopted from system-level to circuitlevel. In order to develop a po...
Heterogeneous multi-core processors, such as the IBM Cell processor, can deliver high performance. However, these processors are notoriously difficult to program: different cores...